Ring: A Mind Melting Adventure Game

[@MandaloreGaming]

Take the RING CHALLENGE - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGeahKmYdtyNmck Backing up this video might be a good idea as it might end up needing some alterations or vanishing entirely if it gets hit with any incorrect music claims because there's just so much music.

[@GreebusBleeb]

You're always so great with the explanations, thanks Mandy!

[@gandalftheblonde770]

Edging Your Audience: 101

[@AndrewD8Red]

Yeah, you say that now, Mandalore. I know what your game is; you're trying to play the algorithm Spiffing Brit Style.

[@AndrewD8Red]

Also, are you the same Mandalore who did the music video to Commander Shepard back in the day? Or was it another Mandalore?

[@lordcommissarthomas1922]

@@AndrewD8Red no, it’s the same guy. It’s still up on the channel

[@TheCamster4545]

“Freya, sweet Freya,” *closeup on her oblong head* “Ugh” I’m dying lol

[@Elliot0666]

Same

[@wallyhackenslacker]

She looks like a character from twinsen's odyssey that was scaled up to 150% but only on the vertical axis. Even for 90's early CG she looks so low effort.

[@bigpigeon2384]

She’s fully default posing whenever the camera isn’t focused on her

[@conner4547]

The Dwarf King insulting a woman and then surfing off may be the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

[@ridderjaim3]

Alberich is the only Sigma Manlet

[@koenvandamme6901]

Very GIF-worthy indeed

[@johnturner3455]

Begone trout

[@julianblandi4195]

Time stamp?

[@marreco6347]

@@julianblandi4195 15:05

[@dallasjthompson]

Ring 1 being finished and there still being like half the video left has the same energy as "why is there a second health bar?"

[@DcCock]

It's like beating the Guardian Ape in Sekiro and not being able to progress.

[@lLenn2]

@@DcCock What?

[@screescree3621]

​@@lLenn2 Guardian ape is a boss in Sekiro that, after you "kill it", comes back to life without the head; the one that you just happened to hack off.

[@lLenn2]

@@screescree3621 What?

[@ferdithetank7535]

Yep, those games are like Dark Souls bosses hitting on your sanity, even in review

[@ToastyMozart]

"What's with the artillery?" I think it's Tchaikovsky, envious that he doesn't get a game.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Not Rossini?

[@StealthMarmot_]

Underappreciated comment.

[@MrJedroi258]

I thought the same

[@PhoenixFireZero]

That joke is as high as highbrow gets

[@dwightschrute2822]

7:06 that's the church bells then i reckon?

[@sevenpolar3483]

'Wotan may be the God of Gods but I am the Dwarf of Dwarfs' I really wish Alberich was the game protagonist all the way through, all his lines have such rich character.

[@traewilson5127]

His voice actor is clearly having the time of his life being an awful little man out to make problems on purpose for everybody around him, and bless him for it. EDIT: Looking at the etymology of Der Ring des Nibelungen (hear me out) and how the Nibelungs are basically what dwarfs are called - the title in English is The Ring of the Nibelung - and since Alberich is a Nibelung and he made the Ring, making the title effectively "Alberich's Ring" (comically deep breath) There actually is a strong argument to be made for an adaptation of this epic opera told entirely from Alberich's perspective.

[@thefool8224]

It was the gianni of his time

[@grandmasgopnik9642]

I’m going to start threatening people with my lack of height.

[@traewilson5127]

@@thefool8224 If Robert Gasman wouldn't be available (yes, Alberich is played by the man who would go on to be the voice of Rayman) to play him again in a remake, then absolutely Gianni would be a close contender. He's got that megalomaniac energy down pat.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I know. We've gotten so familiar with the "protagonists" of Limbo of the Lost, Mystery of the Droods, and Haze that it's shocking that Alberich is only playable on the first game's first part. Edit: Anonymous Agony, not Haze. Guy's name and that other terrible game made me say it wrong.

[@bavettesAstartes]

Their deadpan faces as they smash into solid walls will never not be fucking hillarious to me.

[@SommerSen]

i can't decide if i should bet that this is going to be in Jojolands

[@sirpuffball6366]

the first time caught me so off guard i thought it was the game crashing but i fucking lost it when it happened again

[@MandaloreGaming]

The thumbnail is the final frame of Alberich impacting the wall. KZbin suggested it and I actually took them up on it.

[@sirpuffball6366]

@@MandaloreGaming amazing

[@areoants9453]

@@MandaloreGaming No wonder the thumbnail seems so different from the rest. How can you improve upon perfection?

[@thatguy6919]

The segment where Albrecht takes the time to dunk on the Rhine maiden in triplicate only to surf away clumsily will never not make me scream laughing

[@philthephilosopher9235]

The vine booms are just the cherry on the top.

[@DerGottDesChaos]

Pure sigma chad energy

[@adronius147]

The most based thing I've seen all year, I think.

[@ThisIsntWhatYouExpected]

Based Alberich

[@icycrusader1947]

Alberich reminds us all of the most important saying in our times, "Stay Safe Kings."

[@BilisiFunfun]

I'd buy a game where Alberich, Briggs, and Halligan team up to have Scooby Doo adventures.

[@maxdragon5043]

Provided they don't kill each other first, purposefully or not lol.

[@erueka6]

Screw that the side characters are golden as hell mash all the universes together and add in moment of silence since it's in the druids universe.

[@Yurikon3]

Alberich: Ego Halligan: Id Briggs: Superego They'd really from pretty balanced force.

[@joshuawilliams9247]

Which one is Briggs from again?

[@Yurikon3]

@@maxdragon5043 Alberich perhaps could try to kill Halligan, but it contantly backfires on him while Briggs finds it all pretty amusing.

[@durgenthefirst]

The moment Mandalore got Ring 2 to work is somehow as exciting as it is terrifying of a video plot twist.

[@MandaloreGaming]

One benefit of the premiere was no one knew the length so that was fun to see.

[@Sagalink]

@@MandaloreGaming I was settling in for a nice 38 minute video. Now I feel like I'm coming down from a drug trip.

[@IamOutOfNames]

@@MandaloreGaming I got on the weird train about middle point. I had no idea wtf was going on to the end. Thank you Mandy, I blame the [gnome] for this.

[@ikwilgeenkanaalzeur]

As i kid i could never figure that game out, and it claimed all my harddrive space had to let that game go.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

@@Sagalink that’s funny cause this became available just as I was going on one.

[@ythandlename]

Alberich effortlessly resisting the Rhine maidens by insulting them and surfing away was passing the alpha test with flying colors.

[@JessesanMan]

Hitting that Sigma Grind

[@jefferyjoyner6032]

The vine booms made me cry tears dude

[@marley7868]

it gets even better he can agree to scre them but tells them straight up it's a sideshow to his gold heist and yes he can screw all of them then reject them for zero consequences

[@somniumisdreaming]

He's just into males, easy pass.

[@DicFlair]

Its the best part of the game

[@SuperdreadnoughtLiebe]

I will never not be left in stitches from Alberich and Loge slamming into the wall at mach speed with completely blank expressions on their faces

[@capscaps04]

They didn't even have a time to react. Lol

[@Nightmare88ish]

25:10 - Timestamp for when Loge gets gamer throned.

[@SeruraRenge11]

with the sound of, as Mandy put it, a cat hitting a piece of cheap sheet metal.

[@DarkOmegaMK2]

END OF THE FIRST PART

[@GmodPlusWoW]

@@capscaps04 If they did, I reckon that Alberich would have muttered "bollocks" before getting turned into potted pork.

[@Maeve-The-Brave]

Honestly I think one of the most surprising things about this entire fever dream is how the voice actors still give it 110%, no matter how nonsensical whatever they're saying is. It makes me insane, I love it.

[@ab-gail]

I love them for that.

[@TheBonkleFox]

Unironically Ring 1's voice acting is what would make me wanna keep going. It's like a dream where what you're seeing makes no sense but for some reason you find it compelling enough to keep going.

[@tentativegazer]

​@@TheBonkleFoxliterally just had a dream that was exactly like the ring part 1 and I think this video is directly responsible

[@marmotman151]

This is the Great secret about performance. If you buy into your performance, your audience will buy into your performance. No matter how stupid the mind and matter of that performance may be.

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

Reminds me Mystery of the Druids, which also has way better voice acting than you would expect from such a fever dream.

[@mahazkei7709]

*Sees the second time a character rides the gaming chair into a wall, immediately understands this is going to be a thing.*

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

I think I had a brain aneurysm the first time around..

[@crimsondynamo615]

I wish sigmund and brunhilde also went to albrechts place if only so they too could have animations of them being smashed into salted pork.

[@jacobberg01]

hi mr. mandalore i thought it important to inform you that i had a 10 hour long fever dream about this game this week. i immediately woke up and vomited. thank you so much i love you

[@MandaloreGaming]

That just means it's working properly

[@cynicalcitizen8315]

@@MandaloreGaming face it, the only thing that has come from this is a single meme: Minerals for Glug.

[@archmagosdeciuskronen1501]

@@MandaloreGaming My Legs are OK! You gain Brouzouf

[@marley7868]

@@MandaloreGaming ahh like looking at the sun gotchya

[@CollinMcLean]

@@MandaloreGaming I sent this video to friend of mine who's a Twitch streamer. He said he watched it while high with a buddy of his and his reply to me was "That hurt my brain"

[@Gruntfan]

I'm convinced that the Alberich we see in the second game is just a double he hired and then abandoned to all his consequences.

[@TheBonkleFox]

actually given that alberich in the opera survives to the end, this is pretty damn likely.

[@TheVerruckMan]

I'll note that the replacement actor for Alberich in Ring 2, was in the first Ring, as the Chief Miner Dwarf (aka, the Gachimuchi Volus, as Mandelore called him in the review) so there may be something to be said for that theory.

[@alicethemad1613]

God, the idea that he somehow revived the union leader dwarf’s corpse and disguised him as himself, and just sent him out to face the wrath of whatever deities want him dead is perfectly in character. As an extra little bit of punishment for daring to disrespect him.

[@juulranch]

That would be extremely in character for him 😂

[@Omega068]

This game makes a bit more sense if I imagine this as a representation of what opening and reading an Elder Scroll would do to your mind.

[@andrefilipe9042]

Aw thank you, this surprisingly helps a lot.

[@alexroberts3944]

You just cured my autism.

[@Gzijebeziu]

The team is complete - Alberich, Briggs, Halligan and Haze are our Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

[@ryokiritani4187]

Man I think even Halligan is outmatched in terms of evil when compared to alberich

[@m-gmustata]

The four chaos gods.

[@Gzijebeziu]

@@m-gmustata I gotta admit it crossed my mind about 12 hours after making the comment and it does fit better.

[@traewilson5127]

@@ryokiritani4187 Halligan is a Chaos God by freak accident (by account of being poorly written) Alberich is a Chaos God by choice. It's up to you to judge which is worse - a Chaos God who knows the harm they cause and gleefully perpetuates it, or a Chaos God who doesn't even understand what they're doing is Chaos; it's just another day at work.

[@abysschef5078]

Someone needs to make that one spiderman meme with these characters.

[@marcinkrz3140]

i hope alberic will become a recurring part of the "MandalorGaming cinematic universe"

[@SuperGman117]

God I hope so, he's such a fucking legend

[@Web720]

Sigma asf.

[@Juel92]

"Your days will be gray and your wife ugly" Damn dude knows how to formulate chilling threats.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

*vine boom*

[@snoopsauce6294]

As soon as alberich's segment was over, the game collapsed. My mind is shattered. This will surf on in my mind for days.

[@RandomPerson-b1s]

Just like Alberich surfed after dunking on those fish ladies

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

@@RandomPerson-b1s *vine boom sound*

[@Web720]

@@Intestine_Ballin-ism Fuck off, I hate being happy.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

*kracc bracc fart sounds bass boosted*

[@user-ex6xc5ox3k]

I can't get over the "crashing-face-first-into-mine-shaft-wall" ending.

[@CegeRoles]

The complete lack of expression on the character’s face is what sells it for me.

[@JBrander]

*End* *of the first part*

[@admiraltonydawning3847]

More than once btw.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

@@CegeRoles the fact both Alberich and Loki can do it makes it funnier...

[@timothymclean]

What gets me is that there are _multiple_ endings, for multiple characters, in the same mineshaft, with the same solution.

[@GrandGoblin]

"Who or What was Ring made for?" -Fantasy Opera -Mechanical Aesthetic -Unhinged Puzzles Ring was made for The Machine Elves

[@Jizzfrosti]

It was made as part of an incomprehensible deal humanity made a long time ago that the devs unconsciously fulfilled.

[@Sobachkaspike]

Have you ever tried DMT

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Feels like a Sseth intro.

[@marley7868]

mandalore it was made for you personally

[@halkiierid4084]

This game feels like it was found on a mysterious disc deep in one of the Dwemer ruins from Elder Scrolls.

[@NoriMori1992]

29:58 He's not kidding when he says slide puzzles are his kryptonite. I think he spent at _least_ half an hour on this. Shammy showed up in chat and started yelling instructions and threatening to come over and solve it for him.

[@deejorno]

After watching his stream of it and his primal hooting at completing the slide puzzle only to be pulled out under by another puzzle is a personal highlight of mine

[@sukhoifockewulf]

​@@deejornoHaha, Imma have to check that out.

[@michaeltan7625]

Fun fact: Alberich is the only major character (beside the Rhine maidens) to survive the entire Ring cycle in the actual opera. He is JUST THAT GOOD!

[@traewilson5127]

You could actually do a loose retelling of the Ring Cycle from the perspective of Alberich and it'd be justified by the canon. Nasty little fella giving the gods and mankind grief and misfortune; siring and raising up Hagen, seeing the Twilight of the Gods unfold and surviving to tell the tale. There's drama to be mined from the exploits of a legendary archetypal villain. Just, you know, tone down the Jewish coding, eh? Don't need anymore of that antisemitism.

[@michaeltan7625]

@@traewilson5127 That might actually be the better way to go for this game. It’s already diverging heavily from the opera, and made Alberich a much cooler character (I think, I only read the plot synopsis of the opera), so why not go all the way and make something more special?

[@ryokiritani4187]

@@michaeltan7625 alberich is much cooler in this game, yes. In the original, he originally goes to the Rhinemaidens to... well, fuck them. It's the reason he manages to steal the gold; they're so convinced he's to busy trying to get them they don't see him steal the gold. Also, here he loses a fight against Loge (who is a fucking god) and thus loses the gold, but in the original he is tricked by Loge into turning into a frog, then threatened by Wotan to give up everything. He's a much cooler man in here.

[@Dan-gs3kg]

@@traewilson5127 Oh fucking hell

[@traewilson5127]

@@ryokiritani4187 Getting a hold of a collection of the complete opera (because when I get hyperfocused on something I gotta analyze EVERY ASPECT of that obsession) there's a weird detail the first Ring game leaves out about Alberich and Loge - they used to be friends: cousins even - but Loge betrayed him in some way, so Alberich has particular disdain and mistrust for him over even Wotan. Quote (translation, obviously, not the original German): Loge: "Well do you know me, childish dwarf? Who is't? Now say, at whom you would snarl? In frigid lair, where freezing you lay, where were your light and warming illume, if on Loge you had not looked? What aid were your hammer if I ne'er heated the forge? Cousin you may be; once friend of mine - no more than these are thy thanks?" Alberich: "With the light-elves laughs now Loge, the cunning rogue! Art thou as falsely their friend, as my friend thou wert once? Haha! That'st pleasing to me! Then nought needs't I fear of them." Loge: "I'm surely worthy your trust?" Alberich: "In thy untruth trust I; not thy truth! But dauntlessly I defy you all." There's opportunity there to expand on the melodrama Wagner only teased and hinted at before. Something worth bearing in mind to anyone who might toy with the idea of a new take on Der Ring des Nibelungen today.

[@thetreeroots]

Imagine coming to the end of your life, closing your eyes for the last time in acceptance, only to be hit with the Ring 2 death screen

[@jakelee7083]

That's when Mandalore knows he's going to hell.

[@M30W3R]

It's a toss up between that and MꚛRTIS

[@casedistorted]

I’m sure that’s what happened to my dad when he died of a heart attack two months ago

[@SeruraRenge11]

Nah because if that was the case, death would have no consequence and I'd respawn at the last scene.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

I can only hope. “Eder Valsong now wants you to find a piece of the Norn’s thread…”

[@KaijuKinnie]

"that was one of the worst dragon slayings I've ever seen" There was this German story where a dude kicks a dragon in the dick so hard it shit itself and died.

[@traewilson5127]

What are you talking about, that's friggin' amazing!

[@ZorotheGallade]

The author must've grabbed the F.A.T.A.L. book while trying to reach for the D&D manual for mistake

[@Xenomorthian]

"Oaauuuugh my dragonstones!" *wet_fart.mp4* "The dragon be slayed"

[@rustyshackle8000]

I mean, fair, if I got kicked that hard I'd probably die too

[@jokubasrazas2255]

now i wanna see that

[@AnvilApricot]

I like how you say the original opera is split up over 4 nights *so the audience can survive it* . Like every single person in the production are government created super actors made to be able to perform and support said performance for days on end, but they're capped at only a few hours per showing to save the humans watching them

[@The_Phantom_Merchant]

To be fair I have met theatre kids both actors and production staff who would attempt to do it the full 15 hours.

[@michimatsch5862]

Heck, they would manage to do it. Like not in any way that was healthy for them or remotely good after the first 10 hours. But they would somehow manage.

[@botondhetyey159]

Have you met theater kids? They absolutely would do the full 15 hours, if they could.

[@YukonHexsun]

I'm reminded of a presentation I did on cyberpunk literature that I almost did sleep deprived on copious energy drinks, as an exercise in sorta, method acting. I had put off the work until the day before the presentation, and had finished reading Neuromancer. The beginning of that book where the main character's addicted to amphetamines made me think it could be interesting. Didn't end up doing it. Also turns out I probably wouldn't come off like a tweeker because I had undiagnosed ADHD, those drinks just make me focus at best, and feel tired and sick at worst.

[@InternetHydra]

I’ve heard of group doing near back to back Les Mis performances, and at least this is a fifteen hour story not a four-five hour one acted over and over like you’re in stage play Groundhog Day.

[@avatarkc]

What happened to Albrecht was nothing less than character assassination.

[@shaynehughes6645]

The second game's interpretation is propaganda created and perpetuated by Ish and his word of mouth.

[@cc1093]

The voice acting on the first game really is mesmerizing, and by the way why was he limping?

[@SenisPucker]

@@cc1093 Because his goofy armour makes him nearly as round as he is tall. Trying to move around in that would make anyone waddle, especially if they're dwarf-sized. Cute attention to detail from the animators.

[@ildathet]

i could have accepted that the loss of the ring, kingdom and frogiffication broke him, but not like this

[@joshuakim5240]

I'm 80% convinced that if Albrecht was like his chad first title self, he'd have been able to salvage Ring 2 from sheer meme energy alone.

[@thekraken2419]

The 🗿 sound affect after each time rejecting the women is peak comedy

[@Lucax97]

I love using that emoji to describe it 😂

[@alec5779]

And the way he surfs away after literally killed me, and it's the same animation each time

[@gurn_mgee6398]

Sigma grind set

[@calliisto]

Timecode?

[@palaiologos4441]

Alberich woke up and chose violence

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

"Your days will be grey, and your wife ugly" is possibly one of the best insults I have ever heard. When I heard this it felt like someone pummeled me in the face with the handle of a sword and then spat between my eyes as I fell flat in a muddy pigsty. You cannot get anymore medieval than that.

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

The medieval and renaissance eras had some of the most raw disses you’ll ever hear.

[@Dethmeister]

It's not really an insult though. He was just telling him what his fate was going to be if he didn't beat the next fireball.

[@bvyup2112]

just hits you in the soul

[@ezragoldberg3132]

Sick Burn!

[@alyssinclair8598]

some insults are so brutal they feel like murder

[@Shredster7]

Alberich being recast is the most tragic plot-twist that I’ve ever had to endure.

[@DaughterOfFerrix]

I read recast as racist and i had to stare at the screen in shock for a while

[@Dethmeister]

The second voice actor sounds like he went on to work on Oblivion.

[@apuapustija4470]

@@DaughterOfFerrix embarrassing

[@DragonWinter36]

@@DaughterOfFerrix dwarf supremacist

[@thaumly]

@@DaughterOfFerrix why would that be a surprise

[@Art1stical]

I still can't get over the fact that Alberich's voice actor, David Gasman, is the same voice actor behind Rayman, Twinsen (from Little Big Adventure 2), Cutter Slade (from Outcast), Pey'j (from Beyond Good & Evil), and at least a third of David Cage's games. The guy has impressive range.

[@tomtheconqerur]

I think you mean to say David Cage's Movies at the end there.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@tomtheconqerur "David Cage's Interactive Cinéma" *fify

[@Comkill117]

David’s Cage is more accurate honestly.

[@slappio1435]

He also voices Goku in the hilariously godawful Big Green Dubs of DBZ

[@shadow81818]

And also apparently like twenty different people in Code Lyoko?

[@thirdmoon13]

Even after all the pathways into darkness Mandy has led us through, from Marathon to Warhammer, Haligan to Haze, and even the cycles of guilt, this is it. This is Mandy’s kryptonite, his own personal w'rkncacnter, his alpha and omega. Those god damn sliding puzzles got him.

[@afti03]

🤣😂😁🤌

[@512TheWolf512]

i have to admit, they got me too.

[@lobotomite9767]

I've rewatched the the limbo of the lost and mystery of the druid vids like 5 times. Can't wait for this man

[@mightypingas2108]

Don't forget that edgy agony game with the bpd teenage serial killer guy!

[@emprox1]

@@mightypingas2108 anonymous agony! and yeah those 3 vids are my comfort vids i'll put on when i'm having trouble sleeping lol. that and pathologic. hopefully i'll be able to add this one to the roster.

[@Nogardtist]

same cause some games deserves a hour long video and if the quality is watcahble thats good enough i know that game bard's tale can work cause all the cutscene and story progression

[@pradipayogyartha328]

@@mightypingas2108 don't forget S M O O T H I E T I M E

[@mightypingas2108]

@@pradipayogyartha328 YEA YEA *looping rap melody*

[@joesomebody3365]

Albrecht dunking on the Rhine maidens and then surfing away needs to be it's own meme.

[@TyphoonBlast]

It is there’s versions that exist

[@onalongenoughtimelinewewillwin]

Albrecht, the OG Sigma male

[@fenrirsrage4609]

15:05

[@Sara3346]

It is here now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIW2aaColNN0oqc I'm not a bot.

[@ImaginationUser]

Every time I hear the female goddess' voice saying "What have you learned, my son?" I get reminded of "Where did you learn to fly?"

[@ruairip7722]

"I would love to know how Ring was committed." This like a war crime, must be committed

[@fireblade295]

They started a war on sanity and the existence of "this" is the war crime.

[@koenvandamme6901]

Ironically, if you play this, you also have to be committed.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

@@koenvandamme6901 After watching this, I feel like I should be committed.

[@sehtuk3953]

The comedic timing for every time Siegfried dies is incredible also holy shit Alberich is unironically amazing

[@timothymclean]

I don't know how much of that is Mandy's work and how much of it is Ring 2 just being that way.

[@jeffumbach]

It was his voiceover getting interrupted by each death that raised it from annoyance to comedy.

[@korkskrew2000]

the biggest issue with this game is that they hit gold with Alberich's character but failed to continue the streak with anything else.

[@t.k7five084]

True but it's not like they were trying to make a meme game. In the first place

[@ildathet]

the gold was stolen and cursed tbh

[@Hjortur95]

i watched the vod on youtube of his ring playthrough. Votan and Loki had excellent power in their voiceovers. also, the sliding puzzle? took him 45 minutes

[@akiradkcn]

@@ildathet lol

[@AdamTheCoop1]

LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO MY BOY

[@timothymclean]

10:50: It cracks me up that Alberich is singing music from The Ring Cycle, while the soundtrack plays music from _a different part of_ The Ring Cycle. It's such a bizarre choice, why did they do it that way?

[@notinspectorgadget]

WHY DID THEY DO ANY, *LITERALLY ANY* OF THE THINGS THEY DID, THE WAY THEY DID?!

[@timothymclean]

@@notinspectorgadget Most of the weird things are weird answers to complicated questions, like "What is our game about?" or "How should we write Alberich this time?". The mismatched music is a weird answer to a _simple_ question.

Because Alberich does not give a single flying fuck.

[@OxTheHerdzz]

This feels less like Mandy talking about a strange little game and more him begging us to share in his agony to prove to himself it was actually real and not a fever dream

[@Izolus]

Yeah no other video of his has come across quite so "please watch this I need some justification for the insanity I chose to inflict on myself" as this one.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

This explains why this video is just a blank screen for more than an hour. *It only happened in his diseased mind.*

[@Lawlsomedude]

"and as for oblivion, my little fishy . . . you're already history" is the rawest fucking line I've ever heard in a video game holy shit

[@Revenante_of_Asylum]

Can I just say I appreciate the thumbnail being Alberich's unflappable ugly mug racing towards a stone wall?

[@TheBonkleFox]

I love that apparently mandy didn't even pick that manually; youtube just chose it for him.

[@Revenante_of_Asylum]

@@TheBonkleFox That makes it a thousand times better, rofl!

[@Yurikon3]

@@TheBonkleFox KZbin algorithm: You know what... I hand something good for you this time.

[@NoriMori1992]

I didn't even realize that was what it was 😂 I knew it was Alberich's face, but I couldn't figure out what scene it was from!

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

What's kinda funny is that Alberich's story is basically cut in half, and we're getting the second half. Alberich started out as a decent guy, but various circumstances turn him into the guy he is at the start of the game. He basically becomes utterly disillusioned and decides that love, kindness, etc. are for suckers and that he should only care about himself. Without context, Alberich is a funny villain guy. With context, he's the end result of a tragedy.

[@StrikeWarlock]

Reverse Kung Fu Hustle

[@Marcara081]

'...decides that love, kindness, etc. are for suckers and that he should only care about himself.' Explains why the hoes are all over him.

[@twistedblast5253]

Ah yes, the saga of the hour long sliding puzzles. Mandy's time of reckoning is here.

[@AB0BA_69]

He mentioned publishing this video "without alterations". The entire middle is probably gonna be a long scene from an 80s porno

[@sicksock435446]

"15 minutes of him repeatedly saying he's not an idiot as he methodically scrambles a puzzle which was a handful of moves from completion"

[@derpysean1072]

All he had to do was to talk to his girlfriend. That solves everything.

[@onandover1]

watching that for the first time was one of the few times i've laughed loudly enough to elicit concern from my neighbors

[@emolovetree]

He eventually solved it and we learned red is real. What a night

[@seafarerheart]

Alberich being yeeted into a fucking wall and it instantly ending the first part of the game has me in stitches

[@avensurha]

So fucking same

[@UnclePutte]

Brutality, Glug and Minerals. All a man needs in life.

[@sneedclavehere8918]

Love me brutality Love me Glug Love me minerals 'Ate fish 'Ate Mime 'Ate being happy Simple as

[@anthroposmetron4475]

Mandalore realising the second game worked now for him was hilarious, but imagine the sheer physical and emotional horror for the man actually living that moment.

[@Mariodash23]

It had to be like discovering that Pennywise had returned in IT lol

[@StrikeWarlock]

It's like the dude who realized he may have accidentally opened the Demon Core

[@DeniableWhistle]

I love how at the end, Mandalore doesn't ask how the the Ring game was made, he asks how it was committed. Its very existence is a crime.

[@harbl99]

Wilhelm Richard, is that you? Are you still salty that the Frenchies didn't follow your costume notes and stage directions to the letter?

[@gurmyigoll3535]

Wasn't the first time something German committed a war crime, won't be the last.

[@chaoko99]

Committed in this context has entered my lexicon.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

The guy voicing Alberich in the first game is incredible. His monolouges are just the most fascinating examples of reading quotes like that.

[@cc1093]

It should be voiced by David Gasman

[@anthroposmetron4475]

Alberich sounds incredibly similar to Zenos in FFXIV. Honestly surprised Mandalore didn't mention it given his knowledge of both games and anything Japanese-origin seems to be nigh-on encyclopedic.

[@yacabo111]

The possibility of this video disappearing into the void is such a perfect match for the madness of this game

[@keithjames1879]

When your interaction options are “mineral” “brutality” and “glug” you know you are in for a ride.

[@markymark7247]

You gotta love that they had the epic Wagner music going during their stealth section but dead silence during the fight with a fucking dragon and Odin.

[@tamriales]

Half expected Alberich to shout "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" and launch a cow at his subjects

[@kaiosamatlj4031]

Ah, I see a person of true culture.

[@samwatson-tayler2805]

Then he surfs away with a vine boom

[@GreenEyedDazzler]

This reminds me of his Arthur video where one of the characters makes a Monty Python reference and Mandalore loudly sighs 😂

[@varvarith3090]

11:27 Alberich wall impact scene. 25:15 Loge wall impact scene.

[@AskTorin]

Thank you

[@OvenLord21]

Blessed be your soul

[@jamesforrest9837]

@mandaloregaming please edit the video to only include these parts, thank you.

[@BigPuddin]

Well done, soldier.

[@termitreter6545]

Loges blank stare in that scene is sooo good xD

[@Mooseshovel]

I unironically want to have the confidence that Ring 1 Alberich has. Its actually kind of inspiring to a degree.

[@millennialboomer6780]

Alberich is such a fun character. I wish I could have his level of confidence when bragging about his height

[@adeadarcadia]

I can literally feel the knowledge of this game being burned away from my brain as I watch this. Every time something happens the data just goes in and I can feel it immediately get fried

[@Delicouspie]

your brain is autonomously protecting itself

[@adeadarcadia]

@@Delicouspie I dont even remember making this comment it was working

[@Never_heart]

This might be the only true memetic hazard I have ever came across... but I wish I could remember why

[@turbovirgin_]

Ring is made of the junk information our brains filter out automatically to make room for actual thoughts. There's no sense, no information, nothing that can be learned or absorbed. It's mental static. Watching it for too long probably does have some kind of real life infohazardous insanity-inducing effect, and I'm not even saying that as a joke. I really do think this game could impair your ability to tell the junk information from the real information.

[@ShellyTheSeal]

we as a species are not advanced enough to truly grasp the meaning of this work

[@Severin1111]

Can we just for a moment appreciate that this game too has a salt arc?

[@JWP-56]

The description “Playable KZbin-Poop” seems way more accurate than it has any right to be.

[@HelghastStalker]

The problem is that Ring isn't really that funny, and most YTPs are meant to be comedic.

[@chillyavian7718]

@@HelghastStalkerit’s like watching a ytp in a foreign language

[@KingThrillgore]

There's no Alberich saying "All toasters toast toast"

[@KingThrillgore]

And there's no loaves of "Hundig's Sourpuss Bread" anywhere either

[@brunoarres1187]

The late 90s early 00s obscure video game sci-fi aesthetic is something that can never be replicated.

[@necosupr]

I genuinely love the artstyle. It's so uncanny, kind of unsettling but it always makes me curious what more I can discover.

[@zenoblues7787]

@@necosupr It's a unique combination of the boundless ambition of the time period combined with the hard limits of the technology and low budgets.

[@BierBart12]

Warframe did it pretty well. I think its designs were inspired by old Dune's, the batshit insane future evolutions of humanity with cultures unrecognizable to us

[@VoltageXXII]

I agree, and I also feel like Morrowind hi-jacks the aesthetic for a fantasy setting. Because it gives the same surreal and truly alien vibe.

[@jakelee7083]

@@necosupr More unsettling, at times, than H.R. Giger. I mean, the OG Tomb Raider freaked me out and that wasn't even sci-fi.

[@DAREasinthecoffee]

Nothing has made me laugh harder than the sudden closeup and THWACK that comes whenever a character slams into a wall, followed by the gameover screen

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Hunding's voice hits me like a train

[@Nothingseen]

"HUUUUUUUH" *ba baaaaaa*

[@nadussias]

Albrech is perfect. His voice acting, his animation, his character model, his insults. He is this best part of this game. I have returned to this video like ten times just to watch him. I love him.

[@traewilson5127]

Alberich really is the promise of Ring personified: removing the antisemitism prevalent in Wagner's original, making him this borderline Saturday morning cartoon villain devouring the scenery and pummeling anyone who talks back. But he becomes more than some mustache twirling villain with some surprisingly profound quotes showing the twisted mentality that leads one to behaving so monstrously. Alberich succeeding at the trials of virtue set before him, but harboring warped views on those virtues says a lot about how society values certain virtues, without understanding how actual people can have completely grotesque views of him. That line, something to the effect of "There is something to be said for sacrifice. After all, I, without a moment's hesitation, would gladly sacrifice anyone to get what I desire!" Is honestly chilling. A line where he compares fear of a tyrant to religious faith, both being matters of discipline of the masses, is way more profound a line then you'd expect from a game that has this same character call a child of a goddess a watery trout then surf away awkwardly on his space surfboard. If the game met the promise set by its one perfect element, Alberich, this game would've been a true cult classic.

[@romanboi3115]

@@traewilson5127 I dont know how or why this play could be against Iranians or Iraqis

[@traewilson5127]

@@romanboi3115 I didn't *say* Iraqis; I said Jewish people. Richard Wagner was a hardcore German nationalist antisemite which is reflected in the way Alberich looks and how his presence is demonized in both the text and the presentation, as well as in other works by Wagner (he did write more things than Der Ring, you know) There's a reason he was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite artists, and why his works were considered non-degenerate, Aryan art under the Nazi regime. For fuck's sake, he wrote an essay in 1850 called Der Judenthum in Der Musik, or, as you might be able to parse out, Jewishness in Music. It's not exactly a non-biased history of Jewish people and Jewish culture influencing the music world, let's put it like that. Dude was a hardcore antisemite, and his beliefs influenced his art, as the beliefs of any artist invariably influence their art.

[@notinspectorgadget]

@@romanboi3115 hilarious

[@ElvenSonic]

@@HelghastStalker hey look! it’s a true, out and out anti-semite in the open! how embarrassing.

[@oneinathousand2156]

I watched Dune Part Two in the theater yesterday and every time Charlotte Rampling was on screen I had to suppress a giggle because I was reminded of all the gibberish she had to say for this game with a straight face, thanks Mandy.

[@OrobaSpyro]

She was in Dune Part One and Two!? Holy shit that was not a connection between this and Dune I was expecting

[@bc-cu4on]

She was in one of the later seasons of Dexter too, and it was awful.

[@Jaxymann]

"Consider what you are about to do, Ish" "SILENCE!!!"

[@pradipayogyartha328]

The fact that I can't tell if the flossing bear at 1:03:13 is really in-game or edited in is a testament to this game's masterpiece status.

[@Mordoras1379]

I thought it was a reference to Colin's bear animation but it's just regular flossing

[@martinn.6082]

@@Mordoras1379 thanks for nothing

[@lurkergggg8759]

I received my answer at 1:20:11

[@Janfon1]

Openly states he ruined his computer trying to record the game, but goes through with asset ripping the bear and making it do the floss

[@traewilson5127]

Fun fact: Alberich has unique dialogue for accepting each of the Rhinemaiden's propositions in this scene. Being Alberich, Dwarf of Dwarfs, even when he's indulging them, he's no simp. When accepting the first maiden: *"The company of women should be sought with due care; relished unto excess (HMHMM) and forgotten in an instant. However NOW is the moment of excess. Come, let me relish you..."* The second maiden: *"Ooooh, you have all the charms of a woman; all the sensuality of the river's flowing waters. Hm hm hm hmm, I could not refuse you, my beautiful enchantress..."* And the third: *"These words make my head spin, can...can they be true?"* (Yeah that's it) And no, accepting their offers isn't a Game Over; you get a small decidedly unsexy animation, and you'll be blocked because you don't get the first key. It doesn't lock you in a failstate either; you can just surf your way on back to the start of the sequence and tell the little fish off with zero consequences.

[@marley7868]

in short he tells straight up he's just treating this as a sightseeing sidenote for his gold heist

[@drpavel_]

"The company of women should be sought with due care; relished unto excess and forgotten in an instant" gigachadgrinning.jpg

[@theweredragon9887]

He may be under 4 ft tall. But got the big dick energy

[@NoriMori1992]

Wait you can accept their propositions? I didn't know that!

[@sideways5153]

Wow, kinda wild that the game acknowledges how impotent that security scheme was by just letting you do both

[@koenvandamme6901]

When the first line is "We have completed Valhalla" you know shit's going to be good

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

That immediately preceded by the Doom door stock sound effect made my head spin

[@undergang8574]

i bought this as a small child because i thought it had something to do with lord of the rings i might have suffered brain damage, all the character models are etched into the deepest recesses of my subconscious and appear in dreams to torment me

[@TheAgamemnon911]

Believe it or not: Of all the different adaptations, interpretations and stageplays that have been attempted of the Ring, this wasn't even the worst.

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

I'm scared to ask what else is there based on this

[@CJ-wh7ik]

Opera 💀

[@yoru900]

Then what is

[@Crocalu]

Ye the recent Bayreuth operas have been awful. Saw the one from Carl (surname not worth remembering) that was an absolute travesty

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@@Crocalu If I can ask; how do you make a travesty of an Opera?

[@Conndork]

“Having played both, back to back multiple times” I literally gasped

[@CyberVonCyberus]

Good lord, could he endure that ?!

[@koenvandamme6901]

There's a great clip of Mandy blowing up a pipe in the first game from like a few years back

[@scollio6505]

Last year I watched you through tears as I was packing up my things from my house and getting ready to be homeless. This year I peacefully fell asleep in the middle of the video in a comfortable warm bed. Thank you for keeping me company both times.

[@MandaloreGaming]

I'm glad you made it.

[@termitreter6545]

Yeh I remember seeing the stream being on, was like "oh interesting, whats that", and just whitnessed misery xD Fun video tho! Would never play the game personally, so its neat to see whats up with Ring. I just remember ad's for it in german computer magazines a long time ago.

[@Usual_User]

Glad for you stranger from the internet

[@scollio6505]

@@Usual_User thank you stranger whose name I’ll never be able to pronounce

[@cereskerrigan]

@@scollio6505 We’re all sons of the internet now. Good fortunes, stranger.

[@lycanthrope182]

"They're trying to kill me! Personally!" Is just too perfect of a line

[@kadehawthornthwaite2130]

Ring cutscenes are what psykers see when they take perils from the warp

[@jorgenjorgensen2739]

Explains a lot LOL

[@BigPuddin]

NEVER let the gellar fields shut down.

[@Earthstar_Review]

That explains the mortal wounds in a way nothing else could.

[@Sigismund697]

Kek

[@Jaxymann]

Alberich being an avatar of Tzeentch who gets his kicks by insulting space-river maidens and repeatedly kicking people in the balls makes FAR more sense than it has any right to.

[@AldogVids]

The part with him surfing literally had me crying laughing lmaoo

[@koenvandamme6901]

Gigachad Alberich

[@Web720]

@@koenvandamme6901 More Sigma.

[@MG-us5el]

The bear flossing at 1:03:12 after he one shots a door gives me life.

[@notinspectorgadget]

Honestly, by this point there's so much nonsense going on in this game that I had just accepted the fact the bear flosses. He knocks down the door and then flosses. It didn't stand out as bizarre or anachronistic. Thank you for pointing this out.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

You’re laughing, a door was destroyed and the bear flossed and you’re laughing!

[@abbieoconnell3595]

I've seen this video at least 8 times and I've never noticed the flossing bear before: I'm currently sat in bed sobbing laughing. Thank you 😂

[@ivankudinov4153]

Well, until now I thought 'The Mystery of the Druids' and 'Anonymous Agony' were quite sophisticated examples of human capabilities, but you have just opened the portal into the new dimension.

[@jakelee7083]

Limbo of the Lost comes pretty close.

[@ivankudinov4153]

@@jakelee7083 Oh yes, I forgot this masterpiece, it is much closer to "The Mystery of the Druids" though

[@AnimeManiacAndres]

Agony was incredibly cringe. At least this doesn’t hurt my atoms to watch.

[@bigmac8309]

@@AnimeManiacAndres yeah, the other adventure are just batshit fun the makes you wonder but anonymous agony just makes you lose faith in humanity

[@apathymanthemundane4165]

'Armed and Delirious' is waiting further down the rabbit hole...

[@SergeantExtreme]

An interesting point of note: when I was researching this game, many European video game review sources gave this game an 8/10, while many American review sources gave this game a 2/10. Of the 600,000 copies sold, 200,000 were sold in France alone. So yeah, go figure: only in France is this game considered a "masterpiece and work of modern art".

[@megamiaouh1]

It's more that public libraries and clueless parents wanted to buy an 'educational'/'artistic' game but didn't know shit about games. Plus the comics artist was popular in France so his fans probably count for half of those sales.

[@natedash11]

That's what happens when you spend over half your life with a bicycle seat digging into your gooch.

[@gitarooman2995]

​@@natedash11wow so funny 😐

[@littlefieryone2825]

@@natedash11 I'd take a bicycle in the gooch over a car exhaust pipe in the mouth.

[@arthas640]

Doesn't surprise me. Ticks all kinds of French boxes: Shoehorned in socialist rhetoric? Check. Based on an operatic epic? Check. Classical music? Check. Up its own ass with how deep and poetic it thinks it is? Check.

[@PsychOsmosis]

"He has now digivolved into an awful fusion of Kratos and Caillou." Oh boy, this one had me choked up laughing.

[@ortezac.5339]

We have options to either call him Kraillou, or straight-up Shitfried.

[@LS1056]

The guy who played Albreitch had a blast. He was told, "Go be evil" and he really went for it

[@ilovemonkeyos]

The absolute legend insults fish women and the surfs away. I love it.

[@0Maloy1]

And she NEVER got over it! She demanded sigmund bring the dwarf to her for revenge The rejection that transcended time and space

[@IamOutOfNames]

This makes me think Mandy and Sseth are two different people, because I know Seth is a man of culture and loves big mommy fish milkers.

[@ferghalicious1480]

Lmao at the spider at 1:05:58 pegging it back to kill Siegfried like the sea-bear attacking Squidward

[@_Lumiere_]

😳

[@jasonalcatraz5817]

@@_Lumiere_ Your mind is dirty and needs a thorough scrubbing. Pegging is another way to describe brisk movement.

[@jrsomethingnumbers9704]

Should've drawn the anti-sea-bear circle lol

[@notinspectorgadget]

Cubed, sliced is fine.

[@WesternEasterMan]

“Come, drink peace, happiness and oblivion from my breast.” “I have no taste for peace and happiness, and as for oblivion, my little fishy... You're already history.” What a chad.

[@jackmesrel4933]

BARS

[@m0-m0597]

i heard PISS but ok

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

By the end of that sequence it really becomes a case of: Ring Maiden: "if you stay with us you will find love, happiness, and have every earthly need or want you could ever have catered to instantly through actual godly magical powers." Alberich: "I don't want power to make myself happy, little fishy. I want it to make everyone else miserable!" Alberich is the sigma grindset embodied, and used for pure evil.

[@DigitalFulcrum]

The fact they offer oblivion sounds like to me he will have happiness and then death, practically instantly maybe. I wouldn't accept oblivion from any guardians.

[@OldIronJohnson]

@@thespanishinquisition4078 Trusting gods and spirits in Norse mythology is such a massive coinflip that turning them down is the reasonable pick regardless of motivation.

[@nakenmil]

Druillet is a fucking legend, one of the original founders of Metal Hurlant (Heavy Metal), and an absolute madlad artist. He's adapted a classic work into scifi before at least once, called "Salammbo", which is a 19th century novel based on one of the Punic Wars. He just chucked that story into his batshit insane "Lone Sloane" scifi oddysee series. He also has at least once story (Yragael-Urm) which is DELIBERATELY incompherenshible. Characters speak, and do things, but nothing connects. It's literally just a purely creative exercise, and I enjoyed looking at the art because it's cool. So, you know, interesting guy.

[@halkiierid4084]

The second I heard his name mentioned, I knew this game would look cool and make absolutely no sense.

[@nakenmil]

@@halkiierid4084 Hahah, yup, pretty much! XD

[@Nathan-pw9nl]

Siegfrieds sudden screams as he dies over and over again are the most legendary thing in this game, only dwarfed by Alberich spitting BARS.

[@s.a.l.1974]

dwarfed you say

[@BigPuddin]

"OOOOOOOHHHHAAAUGH" *orchestra sting*

[@themrfives]

Heh. "Dwarfed."

[@chrisk3824]

Ok, it's such a small thing but whoever added the emojies to Albepoor's subtitles is a treasure

[@ortezac.5339]

ALBEPOOR 🤣🤣💀💀💀💀 Will call him that from now on, at least design-wise. Still a gigachad tho.

[@denseaf1582]

Emojis being used to indicate tone for the captions is very nice tbh

[@NicoTb4]

I love meme's last line of dialogue, where he's saying how much meme cared for sigfried with a😡 and then changing the emoji mid sentence to asking for mercy with😔

[@grandmasgopnik9642]

I’m just awaiting the “surfing away from wenches like a chad 🏄🏻‍♂️” scene.

[@AscendantStoic]

Based Gigachad XD

[@grandmasgopnik9642]

…. Now that the vids out. I wasn’t expecting ring 2s surfing suicide ending. 🏄‍♀️ RIP

[@TheBonkleFox]

@@grandmasgopnik9642 i mean if you know the story of der ring des nibelung....

[@brother_sothoth]

I was not prepared for the Haze jumpscare at 25:08 💀💀

[@dontpreorder2783]

Actually scared the shit out of me cause I blinked and he was suddenly on screen

[@cookingwithtool159]

On god

[@OrobaSpyro]

hey hey-yey

[@doodledibob]

That Pathologic music when the plot breaks down is absolutely spot on

[@Shinigami13133]

It's an allusion to children being behind it all

[@afti03]

Its playing right now!!

[@Conservative4]

When did the plot "break down"?

[@cumpanions8105]

timestamp?

[@martinn.6082]

@@cumpanions8105 40:35

[@KalimaruQuin]

41:05 I got you. The hologram is Brunhilde's sister, one of the valkyries. Since it comes back later, and since only one of the other valkyries shows up again in the play, we can assume that the hologram is Waltraute. She's basically explaining that Nemesis is a title, not a name, and that by opposing Odin's wishes and going against his plans, Brunhilde has also attained this title. Granted, it's a Greek one that's been stuffed in here, but it serves a purpose since Brunhilde's path to destroying Valhalla and bringing down Odin starts with trying to spare Siegmund for Odin. Thus, "Deep down, this is all HIS fault." 43:44 I think the 'greater game' is supposed to imply that in this version of the story, Waltraute manipulated the events here and that Brunhilde, ISH, and even the player are thus fulfilling her destructive childish nature and destroying Valhalla for her, much like how she's blaming the doll for breaking things when you first meet her. You are her 'different doll'.

[@Caffeine_Addict_2020]

I cannot even fathom the amount of insanity you endured to bring us this knowledge: thank you sir

[@peppermillers8361]

deepest Ring lore from the "weakest" Ring fan.

[@Prince_Sharming]

This man had stared into the abyss and grinned back.

[@mentalyunstabletable9148]

after reading this i kinda want to see the play

[@fjdpaco]

you may have been the first person to understand this game, either that or you became mad searching for it's meanings. Regardless, thank you.

[@marwansobhy7050]

"Why did you adapt a play containing norse mythological characters into a space opera and then take out the plot?" "BEACUSE IT IS MY GOOD PLEASURE, YOU ROTTEN LITTLE CABBAGE"

[@MandaloreGaming]

I laughed to tears at this so I know I've not recovered from Ring yet.

[@chopperjoe1998]

@@MandaloreGaming Such trauma requires much healing, my friend.

[@quickstrike4242]

@@chopperjoe1998 I don’t think you heal from this. I think you just learn to live with what you saw and did with the Ring and Ring 2. The pain will always be there, you just learn to live with it.

[@hazukichanx408]

Video game developers in most parts of the world in the 90s: *_Attempting to make competent, entertaining, coherent titles_* Meanwhile, french devs: "Yeet the plot! Eh, add random stuff. More, more! And every character must be completely irrational! Let me see that cut-scene recording... no, no. We need all the people playing the english version to be groaning in pain as their feeble minds try to make sense of the endless streams of gobbledygook we're going to pour down their poor little ear-holes!"

[@iratepirate3896]

@@MandaloreGaming 200% based

[@QuickTimeFailure]

Seeing so many people post the Walsung speech in the live chat during the tightrope section had me laughing way too hard

[@frantisekprusa4877]

I FUCKING LOVE ALBERIC. The meme sounds every time after he disses one of the water women is amazing ahahahaha. You madea great editing choice there Mandalore. Truly, you did.

[@UserNoB24715]

1:26:11 After Limbo, Druids and AA I thought Mandy was unbreakable but I see now he is human after all.

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

Now we finally have the 4 horsememes. God save us all...

[@audiosurfarchive]

HUMAN ROBOT HUMAN ROBOT HUROMABOTN

[@OldIronJohnson]

Fortunately, after playing Ring he's not going to be human for much longer.

[@TheNord06]

Mr mandalore... Was defeatable.

[@MrJedroi258]

AA?

[@Warhawk_of_Chogoris]

This game is like one of those dreams you have when you’re drifting in and out if consciousness at 3am

[@kevinolmedo675]

Not any dream, a fever dream in the cold of a winter night, sweating and groaning in pain

[@ColdHawk]

More like the fever dream you wake from to find yourself in the ICU an unknown number of days after the car accident, certain you had some kind of head injury and an infection after surgery, but not sure if you only imagined the incident during which demons or aliens standing over your bed had poured fire onto your arm.

[@cyberen]

I have a feeling I could take a 2-semester course in this play and still be utterly bewildered.

[@Scatmanseth]

“You must go out into the world and learn the truth or forever be trapped in Plato’s meme cave” That is a sentence I never anticipated would exist.

[@jacksmith3148]

The best part is that he says "Mime Cave", like the character. They just happened to mispronounce his name Meem, fifteen years before it was a term associated with what the product they were making was more suited as.

[@Niskirin]

@@jacksmith3148 What are you even talking about? The game came out in 1998. Memes were recognized by that name in the current understanding of the word by 2005 at the latest. the game was still released before the current use of the term (originally it was coined in academia back in the 90's with a somewhat different meaning) but that's not 15 years before.

[@Bluecho4]

So basically, Siegfried was being told to Touch Grass.

[@Dapstart]

For those wondering about the sudden dragon-ing, in norse legend Fafnir is corrupted by his own greed and eventually turns into a dragon due to overdosing on shinies. think of dragons as like... some sort of nordic kleptomaniac wendigo equivalent. I doubt those last three words have been said before in order before.

[@OdaSwifteye]

It's a great chain of words all the same.

[@Dapstart]

@@OdaSwifteye And the great chain in turn pulls us to madness

[@jeffumbach]

So dragon sickness physically mutated him as well?

[@GameDevYal]

Funnily enough, an old archaic nordic word for "greed" literally translates to "dragonsick"...

[@NoriMori1992]

"Nordic kleptomaniac wendigo" is such a funny analogy.

[@alexjohnson9798]

This game is what you remember normal games as when you're a kid, if that makes sense: scary, esoteric, and complicated.

[@ElvenSonic]

That’s it. every piece of media reads like this before you have real reading comprehension or critical thinking skills. The experience of playing this game is equivalent to playing games as an uncritical, illiterate child.

[@NoriMori1992]

HOLY CRAP, you're right! You're completely right!

[@TheInevitableHulk]

Yeah, I had this same feeling with Halo 1. Like everything physically and narratively in the game could just go on forever.

[@SecuR0M]

This is basically every game in the 1990s tbh. This is exactly how I remember The Journeyman Project.

[@alexjohnson9798]

@@NoriMori1992 haha thanks man

[@clonesharpshooter101]

27:10 There’s no way it actually cuts like that normally, that’s gold lmao

[@TheBonkleFox]

The scream is edited in, but that is 100% exactly how it cuts.

[@Malfaltto]

​@@TheBonkleFox Where is that scream from?

[@captainmappy3959]

@@Malfalttoit’s a Gachimuchi scream. Look up Thunder vs. Lightning Scream

[@Z1_M4N]

​@@Malfalttoit's a gachimuchi meme ( aka Gachimuchi RIP ears)